Republic of Kalmykia

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American figure skater Michelle Wingshan Kwan visited the city of Elista, the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia.

Michelle Kwan came to the Blessed Kalmykia as Goodwill Ambassador.

Michelle Kwan won all his charm in Kalmykia. In the photo Michelle Kwan plays chess at the Chess Palace. Read the rest of this entry »

Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull travels to the Republic of Kalmykia to meet Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the president of the only Buddhist state in Europe.

Rosenergomash Concern has become the General Sponsor of Chess Candidate Matches-2007 to be conducted in Elista (the Kalmyk Republic) from 26 May to 14 June 2007. Sixteen grand masters will compete for four vouchers to attend the Mexican World Championship. A magnificent entry list for these candidate matches forecasts a most interesting competition at all stages; the chess fans will be most pleased to watch games and support their favourite masters.

According to Vladimir Mironovich Palikhata, the President of Rosenergomash Concern, Read the rest of this entry »

English language instructors society ELIS participated in ‘Russia and America: A 200th Anniversary Essay Contest for High School Students’ which was held earlier this year.

The Kalmyk pupils wanted to contribute to celebrating the 200th anniversary of US – Russia diplomatic relations and we are happy to inform you that a student from Lagan district of Kalmykia has been Read the rest of this entry »

The Kalmyks originate from Central Asia. Their ancestors — the Oirats — belonged to the western branch of Mongolian peoples and represented a very powerful alliance of tribes which were formations of the early feudal state under which dominion the whole Mongolia was in the first half of XV сentury. Consequently interregional conflicts and a number of military bad lucks caused the reduction of Oirat Empire.
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From Hannover to Elista – with a new plant. The largest international exhibition of industrial innovations, the Hannover Industrial Trade Fair was closed last week in Germany.

This year was the exhibition’s 60th anniversary was celebrated by over 6,400 business participants from 60 countries, including Russia. Read the rest of this entry »

Rosenergomash entered Kalmykia investing EUR 10 million in a new plant. Russian small power-plant engineering, which has up to now been in stagnation, is recovering. At the end of the last week Rosenergomash Concern and Kalmykia signed an agreement for construction of an electrical engineering plant on the Kalmyk territory for EUR 10 million. The experts believe that the number of these enterprises will be growing with the increase in demand for small power-plant engineering products by 25 % per year and the industry consolidation prospects.
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Rosenergomash Concern and the Kalmyk Republic Government commence construction of a new electrical engineering plant.

Kirsan Ilumzhinov, the Head of the Kalmyk Republic, the President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE), and Vladimir Palikhata, the President of Rosenergomash Concern, signed an agreement for construction of Elista Energomash plant at the Hannover Industrial Trade Fair.

Russian Rosenergomash Concern and the Government of the Kalmyk Republic signed an agreement for construction of Elista Energomash plant to manufacture electrical engineering equipment in Kalmykia at the world’s largest International Industrial Trade Fair in Hannover (Germany). This agreement Read the rest of this entry »

The Russian republic of Kalmykia and the Czech company Falcon Capital plan to build three wind farms in the republic at a total cost of over 150 million Euro, Kalmykia Economics Minister Vladimir Sengleev told journalists in Elista.

He said Kalmykia President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Falcon Capital CEO Jozef Cimbora signed an agreement of intent in Prague last Friday to implement an investment project to produce electricity in Kalmykia at wind plants with a total capacity of 150 megawatts. Read the rest of this entry »

King of Kalmykia

Tom Parfitt
The Guardian, Thursday 21 September 2006

Life is not all plain sailing for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the flamboyant leader of the Russian republic of Kalmykia. For a start, his Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit II needs constant repairs thanks to the rutted roads of his impoverished fiefdom. And then there is the danger of alien abduction. He has already been pressganged into one trip on a UFO – in Read the rest of this entry »

IV stage of Great Kalmykia Rally was finished [ Ru | Fr ]

Photos from Great Kalmykia Rally.

Employee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Sanal Tsatkhlanov held a seminar “Basics of Business Communication” for members of the organization “Leaders of Kalmykia”.

Sanal Tsatkhlanov originally from Yashkul city, graduated from the International Law Department of MGIMO, worked in Russian embassies in Saudi Arabia and the Seychelles. Read the rest of this entry »

Most democratic designer Sultanna Frantsuzova (russian: Султанна Французова) from Elista, fashionable thing from which one can buy for less than a thousand rubles, open new stores in Moscow – October 7, at the Leningrad avenue, 12, and in early December – on Smolensky Boulevard, 7, reports KalmykiaNews.

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In the city of Elista, the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia, will held a charity event, “Build a temple in his heart”.

In the charity action at the stadium “Uralan” will held a charity concert of the famous Russian singer Alexander Rosenbaum.

Collection of funds from the charity concert of Alexander Rosenbaum will focus on the construction of a Buddhist temple Read the rest of this entry »

President of Russia Vladimir Putin visited the main Buddhist temple
[ Russian version ]

President of Russia Vladimir Putin visited the main Buddhist temple complex of the Republic of Kalmykia – ‘Geden Sheddub Choi Korling’. Its name translates Read the rest of this entry »